Food bloggers – OCD cases?

It doesn’t take a trip to a pricey restaurant, or a visual master-meal executed in the kitchen, for people to photograph their food. According to this article in the New York Times, “the number of pictures tagged ‘food’ on the photo-sharing Web site Flickr has increased tenfold to more than six million in the last two years.”

People are taking pictures of their Cheerios. I like how the reporter got the shrinks to chime in:

“‘I’d have to ask if they would feel O.K. if they didn’t do it,’ said Tracy Foose, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, who treats patients with obsessive-compulsive disorders.”